"I couldn't help but think, you know, how could anyone feel like doing something like this would make them a man or make their parents proud of them?" he said. "How could they not have known that God was watching everything they had done? Just because God let them get away with it, doesn't mean that they have gotten away with it."

The church started removing the graffiti hours after members discovered the damage. Power washing will cost the church several hundred dollars, and the pastor did what he could Friday with a bottle of glass cleaner.

"They need to stop it, and we are praying for them and not to continue to do it," longtime church member Pam Crist said.